2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Hi everyone!

Time to nominate books for August! The theme is Silk.

~Please remember to state a connection to the theme when you nominate.

~Books we have read less than three years ago are not eligble. To see which books are not eligble, see this google sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

~ Each person can nominate 1 book.

~ Book must be available both as a physical copy and as an ebook.

~ Authors: Please do not nominate your own book.

~ Please do not nominate books that are part of a series, unless it is the first book.

~ You can second someone else's nomination, but that will count as your nomination.


This thread will be closed by June 26th, and we will choose ten books for the poll. If there are more than ten books nominated, we will choose "seconded" books first. If there is still a tie to get into the top ten, we'll go back to the Goodreads average rating to see which is highest.

I will nominate A Study in Silks. The connection to the theme is that silk is in the title

Following Rachael's initiative, I would like to nominate The House of Silk. The link to the theme also being in the title.

Nominate The Girl Who Wrote In Silk by Kelli Estes (title)
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk

I will nominate Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama

I nominate Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

She drew from her bosom a sort of little oblong bag, suspended from her neck by a string of adrézarach beads. This bag exhaled a strong odor of camphor. It was covered with green silk, and bore in its centre a large piece of green glass, in imitation of an emerald.

Jordan wrote: "I nominate Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

She drew from her bosom a sort of little oblong bag, suspended from her neck by a string of adrézarach beads. This bag exhaled a s..."

I second this title. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Denise wrote: "Nominate The Girl Who Wrote In Silk by Kelli Estes (title)
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk"

I second The Girl Who Wrote in Silk.

I nominate Horse
It's about racehorses, whose riders wear silks

Jordan wrote: "I nominate Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

She drew from her bosom a sort of little oblong bag, suspended from her neck by a string of adrézarach beads. This bag exhaled a s..."

I like the connection and I have the book so seconding :)

Hola!
Very intersting titles! I'd like to add one more to the pile:
Silk by Alessandro Baricco


The connection is, obviously, in the title but it's also in the plot.

I`d also like to nominate The Girl Who Wrote in Silk

Lisa wrote: "Following Rachael's initiative, I would like to nominate The House of Silk. The link to the theme also being in the title."

Seconding this nomination for The House of Silk! Been meaning to read this one for a very long time!

I don't know whether you'd consider a non-fiction but if so, I'd like to nominate: Silk Roads
It focuses on the "Silk Roads" and how trade routes were established between East & West, but how those routes also enabled so much more to pass between East & West - culture, religion, learning, war ...

I'll second Silk Roads

I will second The Girl Who Wrote in Silk

Lucy-Bookworm wrote: "I don't know whether you'd consider a non-fiction but if so, I'd like to nominate: Silk Roads
It focuses on the "Silk Roads" and how trade routes were established between East & Wes..."

Non fiction is fine 😊

Closing nominations and posting poll tomorrow :)

Poll is up! Go vote on our next group read 😊

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...